August 13, 2008

Large Hadron Collider

The LHC or Large Hadron Collider was on the news lately.
The switches will be turned on Sept 10th 2008



This has been eagerly awaited by the Scientific (Particle Physics/ Astophysics) community.

The Search is on for the Higgs-Boson; The mother of All particles !
This particle is named after 2 Physicists:
  1. British physicist Peter Higgs
  2. Satyendra Nath Bose. Indian Physicist

The LHC is operated by CERN. The larger accelerator ring is 100 meters (320 feet) under the ground and is 27 kilometers (16.7 miles) around.


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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Check out this video on YT
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j50ZssEojtM

Anonymous said...

Thats So Funny.. Great Find!